The Hamas movement announced on Tuesday that ongoing searches at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and its surroundings revealed atrocities committed by the Israeli army after its withdrawal.

At the beginning of this April, the Israeli army announced its withdrawal from the Shifa complex, after a two-week military operation, leaving behind massive destruction and dozens of bodies of martyrs.

The movement said in a statement: “Continuing research work in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex after the fascist occupation army’s withdrawal from it continues to reveal more atrocities committed there.”

It added: "In addition to destroying and burning the complex and completely removing it from service, civil defense crews recovered the bodies of hundreds of martyrs from the complex and its surroundings, who were buried by the occupation under rubble and piles of sand, in an attempt to hide its crime against the hospital and its patients, medical staff, and displaced people."

It pointed out that Israel "violated all laws and treaties that protect civilians and hospitals, which made it a target for its defeated army, in its failed attempt to displace our people by destroying all means of life in the Gaza Strip."

The movement called on the international community and its institutions to "work seriously to prosecute and hold this Nazi entity accountable for all its crimes and violations."

Earlier, Tuesday, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service in Gaza announced the recovery of the bodies of 409 dead from the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings, after the Israeli forces withdrew from the two areas.

The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza since October 7 left more than one hundred thousand killed and wounded, most of them children and women, and a famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, which led to Israel being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”